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THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN. SIXTH YEAR. PH(ENIX, ARIZONA, WEDNESDAY MQtfNING, JANUARY 29, 1896 VOL. VI. NO. 212. he mi of anus ! MariSh 4. 1R97. as follows: Republi IRS.STAHFOED'S NEMESIS cans. 44: Democrats, 39; Populists, 6; .total, 89. Necessary for majority, 45. it - ... 'tors: our A QU ARPJE2LSOME NEGRO. Lively Day with Senate. the! The Railway Case at Washington. ! Be; ;an With Whisky and Ended With a Rope. SALE! Ve will move into our new store . . . OUR PRICES will surprise you. GOLDBERG Clothing Remember Our Free Labor PERILS Off mmSBM. Sinking of a Cuban Filibuster.The St. Paul Is Still Aground. Hard Landing at New YorK of the Sailors of a Wrecked English Ship. VINEYARD HAVEN, 'Mass., Jan. 28. (Twenty-five men were picked up from open boats off Long Island Sunday morning by the schooner Helen H. Benedict and -were landed here late last night. They left today for New York, whence they sailed last. Sunday. Their ship was the steamer J. W. Hawkins, recently purchased at Baltimore for an alleged Cuban cruise, and she sailed from New York Sunday night having on board betweenseven-ity-nftve and a hundred men bound, it is claimed, to join the Ouiban insurgents.The rescued men report that when the steamer -was of the eastern end of Long Island she sprung a serious leak and the water gained so rapidly on 'her that all hands were obliged to take to 'boats. Ten mem were drowned. SHIPWRECKED SAILORS. Men From Lost Vessels Aboard Steamer at New York. NEW YORK, Jan. 28. The steamer Seguranca, which arrived today, brought Mate Smith and nineteen of the crew of the British steamer Yoxtford, which ran ashore on Ala-crane reef January 3, while bound from Limon for Vera Cruz with a cargo from Mediterranean ports. There were also on board the Seguranca tfour seamen of the Norwegian ibarkentine Borghild, which capsized at Alvarado, Mexico, January 12, dur-iing a norther. AM hands were saved, but the vessel became a complete iwreclk. The two shipwrecked seamen of the schooner C. W. Jones, which was wrecked on the bar att Santa Anna, also arrived by the Seguranca. THE ST. PAUL. StEl Aground, but in No Immediate Danger. LONG BRANCH, N. J., Jan. 28. steamer St. Paul, which ran aground off Long Branch Saturday morning, o I II I :t it ii n BROS.,! Store. Office. was stiH lying broadside on to the shore tonight and in no immediate danger. She is perfectly intact and fthere is not the slightest sign of a leak anywhere. RAISED A CHECK. Serious Charge Against a Boston Woman in Brooklyn. BROOKLYN, Jan. 28. iBella Clinton, who said that her (home was in Boston, was a prisoner in the Adams street police court today, charged with raising a check Irom $10 to $1,000. The complainant was John Durege, who conducts a music school here. For seven months Miss (Clinton has 'been bookkeeper for Mr. Durege. On December 17, 1895, she expressed the wish to go horn to Boston. She had (been in the habit of drawing checks for Durege and he told her, he says, to draw one for $10 payable to herself. When the check came back from the bank he found that it was for $1,000 instead of $10. He employed detectives to get Miss Clinton back to Brooklyn. They arrived with 'her last night. In the police court when she was arraigned she told Justice Walsh that she had come back from Boston of her awn will, as she had done nothing that could not be explained. She said Durege knew she was drawing the check for $1,000, that after making it out she showed it to him, and he said it was ail right. She was held for examination.FORAKER NOT CONSULTED. Senator Piatt's Letter Advocating Morton an Independent Effort CINCINNATI, Jan. 28. Mr. Howard A. Hinckel, president of the "Commercial Gazette" company, states that there is no truth in the statement sent out from New York that the recent letter of T. C. Piatt advocating Governor Morton for the Republican nom ination for president was the result of a conference at the Fifth Avenue hotel, in New York, last Monday night between Piatt, Foraker and others. Mr. Hinckel received the Piatt letter in typewritten copy, signed by Mr. Piatt, by mail on Sunday evening, sent before Governor Foraker had left New York. LARCENY OF WOOL. 'About $7,000 Worth Taken From Lawrence Firm. .LAWRENCE, Mass., Jan. 28. Frederick W. Leaman was arrested today, charged with the larceny of wool from the storehouse df George E. Kunhardt to tne value of $3,900. John Shea, who it is claimed is implicated with Leeman, is now awaiting trial. The larcenies date back nearly three years, and in all about $7,000 worth of wool was taken. Thurston Upholds the Monroe Doctrine. Voorhees, for Free Sliver, Leads In tha Usual Financial Discussion. WASHINGTON,-' Jan. 28. In his prayer the senate chaplain referred to the appearance of another star, Utah, in the constellation, of states. He invoked the knitting together of tie hearts of all the' people of the Union for the advancement and glory of our beloved country. ' Senator Ttapie, Democrat of Indiana, in presenting a petition concerning the Turkish , massacres, said the .Armenians were : charged with no revolt, tot oniy with being Christians. The time has come, said the senator, when there should be official notification to Turkey and to the Mohammedan church '.that there has been decadence in the'ir power to proselyte with the sword,; Senator Allen of Nebraska gave notice of an amendment to the pending silver bond bill -depriving the secretary of the treasury of the power to issue bonds unless authority is granted by congress. -'',' Senator Call's resolution for an investigation of the- arrest of Eugene V. Debs was taken tip. Senator Call demanded immediate action, saying the laboring interests of the country desired the iaquiry. Senator Hill of New York said that ordinarily he had 'great respect' tor. the laboring people, hut he never heard that they desired this investigation.! The resolution finally went over to allow Senator Thurston of Nebraska to address the senate on the Monroe doctrine. He freely criticised the attitude of Senator Wolcott and sup ported the stand taken .by the presi dent. : Senator Voorhees ol. Indiana, who was recently chairman' of the finance committee, spoke 'in advocacy of the remonetization of silver and sharply arraigned those responsible for the elimination of silver from coinage. Senator Gray, Democrat of Delaware, urged the advantage of the gold standard. His speech was notable in its presentation of the fluctuation of prices, showing them to result from intention and National causes and not from Silver demonetization. Senator Clark, Republican of Wyoming, spoke in favor of silver coinage.Another effort was made by Senator Jones, " in charge of the silver bond bill, to have the vote fixed for Thursday. Senator -.-Hill -objected rand Senator Jones notified the senators to pro-pare for a test of endurance 911 Thursday, as he would ask them to. sit until a vote was taken. FEMALE SUFFRAGISTS. Make an Assault in Senate. Force on the WASHINGTON, Jan. 28. The senate marble room was completely filled today by a delegation of ladies from the National Equal Suffrage-association who appeared before the senate to present a plea for recognition at the ballot box. Senators Call and Peffer were the only members of the committee present and they arrived late. Speeches were limited to five minutes. The speakers were presented by Dr. Annie Shaw. The speakers -dwelt upon the rights of the female sex to an equal partici pation with men in shaping legislation and almost all referred to the injustice of taxing women without giving them a vote. The delegation also visited the ju diciary committee of the house. FOR COAST DEFENSE. Senator Lodge's Ideas on the ject. Sub- WASHINGTON, Jan. 28. Senator Lodge has offered an amendment to the1 pending silver bill to be known as the coast defense bond bill. The bittl provides for the issue of $100,000 three per cent bonds, payable in coin twenty years from date of their issue, $3,000,000 to be annually set aside by the government as a sinking fund to reduce the bonds. The proceeds of bonds shall be used only for the defense of the sea,coasts and lakes of the United States and for the manufacture of guns, purchase of sites and erection of forts and batteries.THE SENATE ORGANIZATION. Republicans Lack One jority. of a Ma- WASHINGTON, Jan. 28. Senators Frank J. Cannon and Arthur Brown, from the new state of Utah, with the exception of the contested Delaware case, established the political division of the upper branch of congress until BLUEFIELD, W. : Va., Jan. 28. Alexander Jones, a negro desperado, boarded a passenger train at Keystone last night under .the. influence of. whisky and was very quarrelsome. The negro 'became incensed when an ; attempt was made to eject him and pulled two revolvers, which he began j firing promiscuously. W. H. Strabher, . postmaster at Elk-horn, was shot through the abdomen and killed. Conductor McOullough was shot in the side, but not seriously injured. (Peter Rico," colored, was shot through the right breast and was probably fatally injured. Jones was incarcerated in the Elk-horn jail. A mob secured an entrance and lynched him. EXPRESS THIEF ARRESTED. DENVER, Jan. 28. JMnkerton detectives have arrested Express Agent George Knout of Colorado Springs on a charge of being implicated in the theft of $30,000 from Weils, Fargo & Co., several months ago. . His father, who racemtly came to Colorado Springs from Cerro Gordo, HI., was arrested on a train at Walsenburg as he was leaving ,the state and about $4,600 was found sewed in his clothing. IN GOOD FIGHTING SHAPE. Monitor Nantucket Overhauled by Naval Reserves. , RALEIGH, N. C.,' Jan.28.-Om-mander Winslow o4 the North Carolina naval reserves reports that he monitor Nantucket at Wilmington has in ten days been put in good fighting shape, as far as her machinery is concerned; that the engines are serviceable and thSat the turret revolves properly. All this work was done by the naval reserves alone, but it is to be paid for by the government. , . THE COAL OUTPUT. Presidents Will Meet in New York Today to Discuss the Situation. ' NEW YORK, Jan. 28. A meeting of the presidents of the anthracite coal carrying railroads will be held in this city tomorrow for the purpose of discussing measures looking to a betterment of the situation. Restriction of production, regulation of prices and an allotment- of tonnage will probably be the chief topics considered. . There is at present an excess of coal in storage and the sidetracks of railroads are filled with loaded coal cars. The output recently has averaged about 5,000,000 tons a month, while the market will take normally only about 3,500,000 tons a month. ROOSEVELT AT HARTFORD. iHARJTFORD, Conn., Jan. 28. Theodore Roosevelt addressed an audience of a few hundred people in this city city tonight on "Enforcement of the Law." He sketched the work of the police commissioners of New York and the reforms of the past year, saying that all that had been done was simply the result of the application c' common sense, morality and eouragj to the problems presented before it. This made it possible to enforce the laws, to enforce them against the big offenders as wel4 as the small ones, and to bring about a new discipline of the police force based uponthe merits of its members. He was introduced by Charles Dudley Warner, who said that no man since the civil war had done so great a service to the cause of free government as Commissioner Roosevelt. AIDING THE INSURGENTS. HAVANA, Jan. 28. Oummunicatdon with Pinar del Rio is still very much interrupted, but reports received by couriers show that the insurgents there under Antonio Maceo are displaying great activity and are doing much damage. Despite the report disseminated here 'to the contrary it was admitted that some 2,000 residents of Pinar del Rio province have joined the forces of the insurgents. RUSSIA IN ARMENIA. CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 28. There is a, rumor here that Russia is arranging with, the sultan for the oc cupation of Armenia, but it is not confirmed by discoverable signs and is discredited in diplomatic circles. FROST IN LOS ANGELES. Rural Calif ornian: Jack Frost has a happy faculty of letting us know at regular intervals' that even southern California does not (possess tropical conditions in the broadest meaning of the phrase. His appearance varies. however, in its strong demonstration, though this year he seemed to be se vere in his visits. 'Mr. A. H. Naf tzger, president of the Fruit exchange, says the late frost was quite severe, though the losses will be less than on former occasions, due chiefly to the fact that the crop of oranges is larger and prices ruling higher. Seeking Recovery Millions. of Fifteen Hearing of the Appeal Before the United States Supt-eme ''' Court. WASHINGTON, Jan. 28. Argument was begun in the supreme ' court today in the case of the United States vs. Mrs. Jane L. Stanford, to recover from the Stanford estate Stanford's proportion of an alleged individual liability for the bonds of the Central iPaci&c Railroad company. Over, $15,-000,000 is involved. - ., The suit comes to the supreme court on an appeal from the decision of the circuit' court of appeals for the ninth circuit. .: Argument for. the government -was begun by Assistant Attorney-General Dickinson, who spoke about two hours. J. H. Ohbate followed in Mr3. Stanford's behalf. . KENTUCKY'S DEADLOCK. FRANKFORT, Jan. 28. The sixth ballot of the joint session of the legis lature for senator resulted, Hunter, "65; Blackburn, 56; Henry Watterson, 9; John Young Brown, 1; Wilson, 1. The sound money Democrats voted today for Henry Watterson. . . POISONED WATER. Cyanide Tanks Where ,s Birdfe Drop- I Animals and lad." . ' On his last visit to Phoenix Syd Kempton of the Vulture was talking about the cyanide works of Malcolm McLelsh, at iSmith's mill, sixty miles northeast of Phoenix. "Cyanide - of potassium is what the leaching is done with," said he, "and it's wonderful 'the strength the pois- onous stuff has. You see the works and their well are just oa the edge of the plain and there is to be found the only water for miles antTmiles. Birds and animals eomeHo drink at the leaching vats and the solution kills them as quickly as though they were shot hrough the heart. It's clear and clean enough looking, but birds that drink tumble into the vats and eighteen coyotes have died in the last " three months within -ten feet of the tanks. A Mexican prospector, nearly dead of thirst, staggered up unperceived about two weeks ago and drank at one of the tanks. When he was perceived, only a few moments later, he had gotten sixty feet away, the farthest distance ever attained by a creature that had tasted the deadly water. He would have been a corpse in another minute. The antidote, sulphate of iron, was promptly poured down his " throat and his life was saved." NO LOVE LOST. Between J. S'.-oa't Fassett 'Piatt. and Boss San Fran-cisiso Chronicle: J. Sloat Fsssett of New York, -who has been visiting Col. C. F. Crocker for several weeks past, has left for his eastern home. Mr. -Fassett is retated to the Croaker family by marriage, having married one of the daughters of ibhe late Judge E. B. Crocker of Sacra mento. The Crockers were very much disappointed when Fassett'13 candidacy tor the gubernatorial chair of New York several years ago ended in defeat. Mr. Fassett has cast -his political fortunes with ithe presidemtial aspirations of Governor Morton of New York, and is, in reality, one of his agents in that direction. He has done what he could (for the Morton 'boom on this coast. Just what he has accomplished will probably be made evident ait a later date. Mr. Fassett i3 a man of positive opinions and has not hesitated to say, while out here, that there is no love lost between himself and Boss Piatt of New York. He is said to have imparted to Col. Crocker some of his enthusiasm in ithe Morton boom. THE GOOD TEMPLARS. A Basket Social and an Election Officers. of Garden Valley lodge of Good Templars last night held open lodge and a basket social, at which great was the attendance and happy the time. There were the usual- comic features in connection with the auction of the baskets provided by the many pretty girls and nothing occurred to mar the evening's pleasure. J. A. Marshall was the auctioneer of the beribiboned baskets. The lodge is in the most prosperous condition. Election of officers came Monday night, the following named being chosen: C. T., J. Ernest Walker; V. T., Miss Lillie Irvine; S. J. T., Mrs. R. G. Phillips; R. S., C. Burroughs; F. S., Charles Nassen; F., Miss Leonora Shields; M., Aug. Dominguez.

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THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN. SIXTH YEAR. PH(ENIX, ARIZONA, WEDNESDAY MQtfNING, JANUARY 29, 1896 VOL. VI. NO. 212. he mi of anus ! MariSh 4. 1R97. as follows: Republi IRS.STAHFOED'S NEMESIS cans. 44: Democrats, 39; Populists, 6; .total, 89. Necessary for majority, 45. it - ... 'tors: our A QU ARPJE2LSOME NEGRO. Lively Day with Senate. the! The Railway Case at Washington. ! Be; ;an With Whisky and Ended With a Rope. SALE! Ve will move into our new store . . . OUR PRICES will surprise you. GOLDBERG Clothing Remember Our Free Labor PERILS Off mmSBM. Sinking of a Cuban Filibuster.The St. Paul Is Still Aground. Hard Landing at New YorK of the Sailors of a Wrecked English Ship. VINEYARD HAVEN, 'Mass., Jan. 28. (Twenty-five men were picked up from open boats off Long Island Sunday morning by the schooner Helen H. Benedict and -were landed here late last night. They left today for New York, whence they sailed last. Sunday. Their ship was the steamer J. W. Hawkins, recently purchased at Baltimore for an alleged Cuban cruise, and she sailed from New York Sunday night having on board betweenseven-ity-nftve and a hundred men bound, it is claimed, to join the Ouiban insurgents.The rescued men report that when the steamer -was of the eastern end of Long Island she sprung a serious leak and the water gained so rapidly on 'her that all hands were obliged to take to 'boats. Ten mem were drowned. SHIPWRECKED SAILORS. Men From Lost Vessels Aboard Steamer at New York. NEW YORK, Jan. 28. The steamer Seguranca, which arrived today, brought Mate Smith and nineteen of the crew of the British steamer Yoxtford, which ran ashore on Ala-crane reef January 3, while bound from Limon for Vera Cruz with a cargo from Mediterranean ports. There were also on board the Seguranca tfour seamen of the Norwegian ibarkentine Borghild, which capsized at Alvarado, Mexico, January 12, dur-iing a norther. AM hands were saved, but the vessel became a complete iwreclk. The two shipwrecked seamen of the schooner C. W. Jones, which was wrecked on the bar att Santa Anna, also arrived by the Seguranca. THE ST. PAUL. StEl Aground, but in No Immediate Danger. LONG BRANCH, N. J., Jan. 28. steamer St. Paul, which ran aground off Long Branch Saturday morning, o I II I :t it ii n BROS.,! Store. Office. was stiH lying broadside on to the shore tonight and in no immediate danger. She is perfectly intact and fthere is not the slightest sign of a leak anywhere. RAISED A CHECK. Serious Charge Against a Boston Woman in Brooklyn. BROOKLYN, Jan. 28. iBella Clinton, who said that her (home was in Boston, was a prisoner in the Adams street police court today, charged with raising a check Irom $10 to $1,000. The complainant was John Durege, who conducts a music school here. For seven months Miss (Clinton has 'been bookkeeper for Mr. Durege. On December 17, 1895, she expressed the wish to go horn to Boston. She had (been in the habit of drawing checks for Durege and he told her, he says, to draw one for $10 payable to herself. When the check came back from the bank he found that it was for $1,000 instead of $10. He employed detectives to get Miss Clinton back to Brooklyn. They arrived with 'her last night. In the police court when she was arraigned she told Justice Walsh that she had come back from Boston of her awn will, as she had done nothing that could not be explained. She said Durege knew she was drawing the check for $1,000, that after making it out she showed it to him, and he said it was ail right. She was held for examination.FORAKER NOT CONSULTED. Senator Piatt's Letter Advocating Morton an Independent Effort CINCINNATI, Jan. 28. Mr. Howard A. Hinckel, president of the "Commercial Gazette" company, states that there is no truth in the statement sent out from New York that the recent letter of T. C. Piatt advocating Governor Morton for the Republican nom ination for president was the result of a conference at the Fifth Avenue hotel, in New York, last Monday night between Piatt, Foraker and others. Mr. Hinckel received the Piatt letter in typewritten copy, signed by Mr. Piatt, by mail on Sunday evening, sent before Governor Foraker had left New York. LARCENY OF WOOL. 'About $7,000 Worth Taken From Lawrence Firm. .LAWRENCE, Mass., Jan. 28. Frederick W. Leaman was arrested today, charged with the larceny of wool from the storehouse df George E. Kunhardt to tne value of $3,900. John Shea, who it is claimed is implicated with Leeman, is now awaiting trial. The larcenies date back nearly three years, and in all about $7,000 worth of wool was taken. Thurston Upholds the Monroe Doctrine. Voorhees, for Free Sliver, Leads In tha Usual Financial Discussion. WASHINGTON,-' Jan. 28. In his prayer the senate chaplain referred to the appearance of another star, Utah, in the constellation, of states. He invoked the knitting together of tie hearts of all the' people of the Union for the advancement and glory of our beloved country. ' Senator Ttapie, Democrat of Indiana, in presenting a petition concerning the Turkish , massacres, said the .Armenians were : charged with no revolt, tot oniy with being Christians. The time has come, said the senator, when there should be official notification to Turkey and to the Mohammedan church '.that there has been decadence in the'ir power to proselyte with the sword,; Senator Allen of Nebraska gave notice of an amendment to the pending silver bond bill -depriving the secretary of the treasury of the power to issue bonds unless authority is granted by congress. -'',' Senator Call's resolution for an investigation of the- arrest of Eugene V. Debs was taken tip. Senator Call demanded immediate action, saying the laboring interests of the country desired the iaquiry. Senator Hill of New York said that ordinarily he had 'great respect' tor. the laboring people, hut he never heard that they desired this investigation.! The resolution finally went over to allow Senator Thurston of Nebraska to address the senate on the Monroe doctrine. He freely criticised the attitude of Senator Wolcott and sup ported the stand taken .by the presi dent. : Senator Voorhees ol. Indiana, who was recently chairman' of the finance committee, spoke 'in advocacy of the remonetization of silver and sharply arraigned those responsible for the elimination of silver from coinage. Senator Gray, Democrat of Delaware, urged the advantage of the gold standard. His speech was notable in its presentation of the fluctuation of prices, showing them to result from intention and National causes and not from Silver demonetization. Senator Clark, Republican of Wyoming, spoke in favor of silver coinage.Another effort was made by Senator Jones, " in charge of the silver bond bill, to have the vote fixed for Thursday. Senator -.-Hill -objected rand Senator Jones notified the senators to pro-pare for a test of endurance 911 Thursday, as he would ask them to. sit until a vote was taken. FEMALE SUFFRAGISTS. Make an Assault in Senate. Force on the WASHINGTON, Jan. 28. The senate marble room was completely filled today by a delegation of ladies from the National Equal Suffrage-association who appeared before the senate to present a plea for recognition at the ballot box. Senators Call and Peffer were the only members of the committee present and they arrived late. Speeches were limited to five minutes. The speakers were presented by Dr. Annie Shaw. The speakers -dwelt upon the rights of the female sex to an equal partici pation with men in shaping legislation and almost all referred to the injustice of taxing women without giving them a vote. The delegation also visited the ju diciary committee of the house. FOR COAST DEFENSE. Senator Lodge's Ideas on the ject. Sub- WASHINGTON, Jan. 28. Senator Lodge has offered an amendment to the1 pending silver bill to be known as the coast defense bond bill. The bittl provides for the issue of $100,000 three per cent bonds, payable in coin twenty years from date of their issue, $3,000,000 to be annually set aside by the government as a sinking fund to reduce the bonds. The proceeds of bonds shall be used only for the defense of the sea,coasts and lakes of the United States and for the manufacture of guns, purchase of sites and erection of forts and batteries.THE SENATE ORGANIZATION. Republicans Lack One jority. of a Ma- WASHINGTON, Jan. 28. Senators Frank J. Cannon and Arthur Brown, from the new state of Utah, with the exception of the contested Delaware case, established the political division of the upper branch of congress until BLUEFIELD, W. : Va., Jan. 28. Alexander Jones, a negro desperado, boarded a passenger train at Keystone last night under .the. influence of. whisky and was very quarrelsome. The negro 'became incensed when an ; attempt was made to eject him and pulled two revolvers, which he began j firing promiscuously. W. H. Strabher, . postmaster at Elk-horn, was shot through the abdomen and killed. Conductor McOullough was shot in the side, but not seriously injured. (Peter Rico," colored, was shot through the right breast and was probably fatally injured. Jones was incarcerated in the Elk-horn jail. A mob secured an entrance and lynched him. EXPRESS THIEF ARRESTED. DENVER, Jan. 28. JMnkerton detectives have arrested Express Agent George Knout of Colorado Springs on a charge of being implicated in the theft of $30,000 from Weils, Fargo & Co., several months ago. . His father, who racemtly came to Colorado Springs from Cerro Gordo, HI., was arrested on a train at Walsenburg as he was leaving ,the state and about $4,600 was found sewed in his clothing. IN GOOD FIGHTING SHAPE. Monitor Nantucket Overhauled by Naval Reserves. , RALEIGH, N. C.,' Jan.28.-Om-mander Winslow o4 the North Carolina naval reserves reports that he monitor Nantucket at Wilmington has in ten days been put in good fighting shape, as far as her machinery is concerned; that the engines are serviceable and thSat the turret revolves properly. All this work was done by the naval reserves alone, but it is to be paid for by the government. , . THE COAL OUTPUT. Presidents Will Meet in New York Today to Discuss the Situation. ' NEW YORK, Jan. 28. A meeting of the presidents of the anthracite coal carrying railroads will be held in this city tomorrow for the purpose of discussing measures looking to a betterment of the situation. Restriction of production, regulation of prices and an allotment- of tonnage will probably be the chief topics considered. . There is at present an excess of coal in storage and the sidetracks of railroads are filled with loaded coal cars. The output recently has averaged about 5,000,000 tons a month, while the market will take normally only about 3,500,000 tons a month. ROOSEVELT AT HARTFORD. iHARJTFORD, Conn., Jan. 28. Theodore Roosevelt addressed an audience of a few hundred people in this city city tonight on "Enforcement of the Law." He sketched the work of the police commissioners of New York and the reforms of the past year, saying that all that had been done was simply the result of the application c' common sense, morality and eouragj to the problems presented before it. This made it possible to enforce the laws, to enforce them against the big offenders as wel4 as the small ones, and to bring about a new discipline of the police force based uponthe merits of its members. He was introduced by Charles Dudley Warner, who said that no man since the civil war had done so great a service to the cause of free government as Commissioner Roosevelt. AIDING THE INSURGENTS. HAVANA, Jan. 28. Oummunicatdon with Pinar del Rio is still very much interrupted, but reports received by couriers show that the insurgents there under Antonio Maceo are displaying great activity and are doing much damage. Despite the report disseminated here 'to the contrary it was admitted that some 2,000 residents of Pinar del Rio province have joined the forces of the insurgents. RUSSIA IN ARMENIA. CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 28. There is a, rumor here that Russia is arranging with, the sultan for the oc cupation of Armenia, but it is not confirmed by discoverable signs and is discredited in diplomatic circles. FROST IN LOS ANGELES. Rural Calif ornian: Jack Frost has a happy faculty of letting us know at regular intervals' that even southern California does not (possess tropical conditions in the broadest meaning of the phrase. His appearance varies. however, in its strong demonstration, though this year he seemed to be se vere in his visits. 'Mr. A. H. Naf tzger, president of the Fruit exchange, says the late frost was quite severe, though the losses will be less than on former occasions, due chiefly to the fact that the crop of oranges is larger and prices ruling higher. Seeking Recovery Millions. of Fifteen Hearing of the Appeal Before the United States Supt-eme ''' Court. WASHINGTON, Jan. 28. Argument was begun in the supreme ' court today in the case of the United States vs. Mrs. Jane L. Stanford, to recover from the Stanford estate Stanford's proportion of an alleged individual liability for the bonds of the Central iPaci&c Railroad company. Over, $15,-000,000 is involved. - ., The suit comes to the supreme court on an appeal from the decision of the circuit' court of appeals for the ninth circuit. .: Argument for. the government -was begun by Assistant Attorney-General Dickinson, who spoke about two hours. J. H. Ohbate followed in Mr3. Stanford's behalf. . KENTUCKY'S DEADLOCK. FRANKFORT, Jan. 28. The sixth ballot of the joint session of the legis lature for senator resulted, Hunter, "65; Blackburn, 56; Henry Watterson, 9; John Young Brown, 1; Wilson, 1. The sound money Democrats voted today for Henry Watterson. . . POISONED WATER. Cyanide Tanks Where ,s Birdfe Drop- I Animals and lad." . ' On his last visit to Phoenix Syd Kempton of the Vulture was talking about the cyanide works of Malcolm McLelsh, at iSmith's mill, sixty miles northeast of Phoenix. "Cyanide - of potassium is what the leaching is done with," said he, "and it's wonderful 'the strength the pois- onous stuff has. You see the works and their well are just oa the edge of the plain and there is to be found the only water for miles antTmiles. Birds and animals eomeHo drink at the leaching vats and the solution kills them as quickly as though they were shot hrough the heart. It's clear and clean enough looking, but birds that drink tumble into the vats and eighteen coyotes have died in the last " three months within -ten feet of the tanks. A Mexican prospector, nearly dead of thirst, staggered up unperceived about two weeks ago and drank at one of the tanks. When he was perceived, only a few moments later, he had gotten sixty feet away, the farthest distance ever attained by a creature that had tasted the deadly water. He would have been a corpse in another minute. The antidote, sulphate of iron, was promptly poured down his " throat and his life was saved." NO LOVE LOST. Between J. S'.-oa't Fassett 'Piatt. and Boss San Fran-cisiso Chronicle: J. Sloat Fsssett of New York, -who has been visiting Col. C. F. Crocker for several weeks past, has left for his eastern home. Mr. -Fassett is retated to the Croaker family by marriage, having married one of the daughters of ibhe late Judge E. B. Crocker of Sacra mento. The Crockers were very much disappointed when Fassett'13 candidacy tor the gubernatorial chair of New York several years ago ended in defeat. Mr. Fassett has cast -his political fortunes with ithe presidemtial aspirations of Governor Morton of New York, and is, in reality, one of his agents in that direction. He has done what he could (for the Morton 'boom on this coast. Just what he has accomplished will probably be made evident ait a later date. Mr. Fassett i3 a man of positive opinions and has not hesitated to say, while out here, that there is no love lost between himself and Boss Piatt of New York. He is said to have imparted to Col. Crocker some of his enthusiasm in ithe Morton boom. THE GOOD TEMPLARS. A Basket Social and an Election Officers. of Garden Valley lodge of Good Templars last night held open lodge and a basket social, at which great was the attendance and happy the time. There were the usual- comic features in connection with the auction of the baskets provided by the many pretty girls and nothing occurred to mar the evening's pleasure. J. A. Marshall was the auctioneer of the beribiboned baskets. The lodge is in the most prosperous condition. Election of officers came Monday night, the following named being chosen: C. T., J. Ernest Walker; V. T., Miss Lillie Irvine; S. J. T., Mrs. R. G. Phillips; R. S., C. Burroughs; F. S., Charles Nassen; F., Miss Leonora Shields; M., Aug. Dominguez.